20 Creepiest Abandoned Hospitals From Around the World

Hospitals can be scary places. They’re sterile and often impersonal, and oh yeah, there are often people dying all around you. And let’s not even get into the fact that they’ve got morgues, too. No one likes to visit the hospital, and let’s not even get started on the terrifying concept of paying a visit to an insane asylum. But do you know what’s even scarier than a brand new, state of the art hospital or mental institution one? A long abandoned hospital or asylum. Amazingly, these things are all around us, and about the only people crazy enough to go inside are people looking for ghosts. Because let’s face it, if there are ghosts, these are places where they’d sure as hell be.

Old Tooele Hospital - Tooele, Utah

Willard Asylum - Willard, New York

The Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane, which is the full name, is a supposedly haunted asylum that is a favorite spot for ghost hunters, and its surrounded by numerous unmarked graves that are the final resting places for its deceased residents.

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Severalls Hospital - Colchester, England

Severalls Hospital was an insane asylum where doctors performed experiments on the patients, which already makes it a terrifying place, and then when you factor in its ominous, decrepit state and numerous tales of apparitions being sighted.

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Cane Hill Asylum - London, England

One of the few asylums on this list that had a decent reputation when it was open is Cane Hill Asylum, which has been ravaged by arson and decay over the years, leaving the ominous looking hospital far more imposing than it ever was while operational.

Beelitz-Heilstatten - Brandenburg, Germany

An enormous hospital complex consisting of 60 buildings, Beelitz-Heilstatten was used extensively during wartime and actually was home to a young Adolf Hitler during World War I, and has been used in movies such as the film The Pianist.

Trenton Psychiatric Hospital - Trenton, New Jersey

What was served as a lunatic asylum for the state of New Jersey is home to some terrifying stories of doctors who, in an effort to “cure” patients, began performing unnecessary surgeries, including the removal of organs, without consent.

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Waverly Hills Sanatorium - Louisville, Kentucky

Considered one of the most terrifying hospitals in the US, Waverly Hills is an abandoned hospital that held upwards of 150 tuberculosis patients, and rumors include a nurse trying to give herself an abortion before killing herself.